Pulse‐cancellation echocardiography in Fabry disease diagnosis

Abstract

Pulse‐cancellation imaging is a novel echocardiographic imaging modality developed for detection of myocardial fibrosis. This technique cancels echocardiographic reflections from the normal myocardium but clearly displays the abnormal tissue. We describe, for the first time, pulse‐cancellation echocardiography application in detecting Fabry disease myocardial involvement. We present the case where both pulse‐cancellation imaging and cardiac MRI concurrently revealed myocardial deposits in a patient with genotypically confirmed Fabry disease.